Reflections on Running the Boston Marathon

I don't write much about running on this blog. It is mostly for my writing career, sporadic as that is. The running is what I'm most passionate about. On April 21, I ran the Boston Marathon. It was truly an amazing and inspirational experience. It was also humbling and extremely hard.

Many of my friends are marathon runners. They know marathons are tough, and they run them fairly regularly, once or twice a year. Up until last year, 2013, I had only run two over the course of a nine year runnin...